Transparent Quotes

264 quotes by 241 authors

Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship.… — Audrey Niffenegger
The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent. — William Gibson
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. — Rabindranath Tagore
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and â€“ pity me. Even the… — Hans Christian Andersen
We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We… — Rumi
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately… — James Gleick
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. — George Orwell
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I… — Tennessee Williams
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This… — Thomas Merton
There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you… — Banana Yoshimoto
She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created. — Peter HÃ¸eg
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. — Dean Young
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals… — Michael Pollan
I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and… — Sue Monk Kidd

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